When you arrive at TwitchCon 2025 at the San Diego Convention Center, you’ll immediately be met with heavy security. Bags are checked, backpacks are prohibited, and everyone passes through metal detectors. To access various areas inside, attendees must scan their wristbands — but these often malfunction, and security rarely makes exceptions.
With such a clear security presence, you would think content creators would feel safe. They don’t – and for good reason.
Streamer Emiru was reportedly assaulted during a meet-and-greet at TwitchCon 2025
Amiro, A YouTube user And Twitch streamer with Nearly two million followersHe was Assault in a meet and greet On the first day of TwitchCon. Despite Twitch repeatedly saying that “safety and security” is its “top priority,” it was left feeling “hurt and upset by the way Twitch handled the matter during and after the incident.”
“I don’t understand how he was allowed to get to me in the first place,” Amiru said he wrote in a long post on X.
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In a video posted on X, a person approached Amero, grabbed her, and tried to kiss her. She pushed them away before security intervened and pulled them away by the arm. Amero says the security is her own, not a member of the TwitchCon security team. She said there were three or four TwitchCon security staff nearby who “did not react and let the man walk away.”
“The woman who turned me away was my personal manager, and behind the booth, the only two people who were checking on me and comforting me were her and my friend. None of the TwitchCon staff came to ask me what happened or if I was okay,” she wrote in her post.
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After the video spread widely on social networking sites, Twitch he wrote in a statement on X It “immediately banned this individual from returning to TwitchCon headquarters, and has been banned indefinitely from Twitch, both online and in-person events.” This is a “blatant lie,” Amero wrote.
“He was let out of my meet and greet, and I didn’t hear he was arrested until hours after he attacked me, and I felt like this only happened because my manager pushed for it, not because the TwitchCon staff attending thought it was a big deal,” she wrote.
Twitch did not immediately respond to Mashable’s request for comment on the conflicting accounts.
Amero also noted that this incident comes on the heels of TwitchCon’s previous ban on her “favorite and regular security guard” for “grabbing a stalker’s arm to bring him to the police” at a previous event.
Now, she says this will be her last TwitchCon, and has encouraged others not to attend in the future.
“I did not feel cared for or protected, even bringing my own security and staff,” she wrote. “I can’t imagine how creators would feel without these options.”
This isn’t the first time TwitchCon has been criticized over security concerns. In 2024, several Kick streaming companies were created The event was disruptedharassing Twitch creators on the site. This year, major streamers, including Valkyrae, QTCinderella, Hasan Piker, Disguised Toast, and Yvonnie, have publicly announced that they will not be attending due to safety concerns.
Additional reporting by Crystal Bell.